DAH 
h Ameriéa. 
and rank, with Cant 
tory of the genusis juft give 
adtions-of the Horticultural con by Mr. 
foil, open ground, by which m : ow’ lefs 
usariantly, and flower earlier and more co 
AHME, in Geography, a {mall t of ae ny, in 
principality of Querfurt, with 1964 lee. and rem 
able for its manufaGiures of linen and woollen cloth an nd wor- 
ted ftockings. It has 2 royal palace, an infirmary, and 
Its diftri& contains 14 villages, and counts a 
population of.4162 individuals. 
MEC, a town of Afia, in the country of Candahar ; 
28 miles S.W. cf Candahar. 
DAHN, a {mali cia of France, in the department of the 
Lower Rhine, chief place of a canton, in the diftri@ of Weif- 
b “The place contains 608, and the canton 4892 
peer a ‘difperfed in fifteen communcs on a territorial 
extent of 225 kiliometres. Dahnis 9g miles N.W. of Weil- 
eee 
DAHOMAY, Dauma, er, as s fometimes ae 
Foun, an tala kingdom of hone Guaed N. 0 
Coaft, about 60 or 70 rom the Arlantic, er 
unkown i interior of the 
Gao Tombudo 
rx) 
3 
mountains of Guinea en the fouth. 
time coat of Whidah, and is faid by Norris, ia his “ Me. 
moirs of the reign of Bofla Ahadce, king ef Dah 
publifhed in 1717, to have teceived its ‘name from Tacco- 
donou, a chief of the Foy nation, early in the 17th century, 
who reduced Da, king of Ahomay, psa open the belly of 
a, and placed the body under the founcition of a paiace, 
which he built in his newly acquired territory, a3 4 meirorial 
of his conqueft. This he called Dakomy, from £4 
this at victim, and ho 
ay th uo hame 
Omys be elly ; 3 that is, a houfe 
built j in Da’s i country very little was known, 
prior to the 2 “ef Guadja Trudo, who fucceeded Wac- 
baigah in 1708. ‘Trudo was diftinguifhed by courage, 
generofity, and m magnanimity 3 3 and his memory continued te 
be heldin fuch veneration by the Dahomans, that they even 
Iwore by his name as the moft folemn of all affeverations ; 
but, Ee his Aplendid been he gh ars to 
h ¢ 
Seis to 
» prepa 
affert his 
br Zin 
rig sie was fe ized, and it t being ose ful a ed 
was fewed up in ck, aod aca 
On of the firft ed:&s of ihe new king w 
that every man of the name of Boffa throughout his mie 
ons fhould be put to death, as he thought it an infult to ma- 
jefly, that any of his fubjects fhould bear his name. Another 
inftance wiil be fufficient to mark the charadter of this negro 
homans. Th ugees continued under a king ; and on 
a difpute between two brothers fo r the fupreme power, Bofla 
Ahadee, to improve this ivifion, patronifed the younger, 
wwho engaged to become i tributary ; and asa teft of his 
DAH 
fidelity, Boffa required him, on the murder of his brother, to 
devour his heart; it is added, that this unnatural condition was 
fulfilled ! During the long reign of this cruel and ferocious ty- 
rant, Boffa Ahadee, the country was harafled and wafted by 
wars, foreign anddomeftic, in which multitudes were flain; but 
nothing fills the mind with fo much horror 2s the facrifices of 
human victyns for the purpofe of watering (according to the 
country expreffion) the graves of the deccafed royal family. 
Without fuppofing that the Dahoman monarchs can receive 
fome plealure from the contemplation of the monuments of 
their Ne ead and wanton cruelty, it is difficult to account 
for their “paffion for decorating the walls of their houfes and 
their apartments with the fkulle and bones of the unh happy 
wretches who have perifhed by their hands. In the reign of 
hoonzou, the fuccefl ) hadee, after the 
flaughter of the prifoners whom he had taken in war, their 
lation having been 
made that 127 ficulls were wanted for the completion of this 
extraordinary embellifhment, the prifons were thrown open, 
and the een ace of devoted vidtims dragged forth 
from a ong the tched captives, to be flaughtered 1 in cold 
blood, = this hell th purpofe. 
ra were informed that 
ad nat been found been to garn 
lies in oe 
5 an ween 3° ar E. ng. Th 
county is pa and luxuriant 3 the foil is a “een rich ag 
of a reddith colour, with a little fand on the furface, except 
about Calmina, where it is more light and gravelly; but 
thrcugh the whole country, as far as it has been examined by 
Europeans, there is not found a flone as big asan egg. ‘The 
country yields a plentiful fuppiy of farimaceous vegetables, 
fuch as maize, millet, kidney bear, called callavances, and 
a {pecies of heans called ground beans. 
ikewlle cultivate tie potatoes, the caffada or mantioc, the 
plantain, andthe bane ine-appies, melons, oranges, limes, 
guavas, aud other ir spied fruits, are alfo abundant. Nor is 
it dcflitute of produgtions adapted for commence and manu- 
ae as ne cotton, the fiugar-caney | tobacco, 
a 
{pecies of pepper, fimilar in flavour to the black pepper of 
the Eaft Indes, and {carcely diftinguifhable from it. The 
Dahomans, like the eas inhabitants of tropical climates, 
piant twice a-year, viz. at the sen and autumoal equi- 
noxes, after w 
general ton poken not only 18 proper, but 
in Whyda and the other dependent oe and likewife in 
Mabee and fever ral neighbour:ng places. With refpect t 
e Daho de ae it confills of a abe of fuverttitious 
ceeaninics it 3s not poffible to convey to the reader 
any intelligible ne fatisfactory account. The Portuguefe 
word “ feitigo,”’ s the Englifh pronounce it ‘ fetsth,”” 
moft of the ma- 
of Afnca, as well as by he Europears who 
The term is now comprehenfive in its fignifi- 
fignifying | witcheraft, has been adopted by 
ritime natio 
trade thither. 
or corporeal, the act of wor 
1°) 
idea of a icorene intelle&ual Being, 
the maker of the cen ; but thefe ideas not ee eafily 
8 ood 
